By Lisa Eichel, MITx Community and Outreach Manager A DNA structure animation created for the MITx course 7.28.1x Molecular Biology: DNA Replication and Repair won the BioCommunications Association Medical Education Award…
Continue readingMIT does not have an education school, but it’s just announced a big new initiative with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation on elementary and secondary teacher training. From MIT News: MIT,…
Continue readingThe National Science Foundation has just announced awards for its 2015 Teaching and Learning Video Showcase: Improving Science, Math, Engineering, and Computer Science Education. Two projects involving our MIT Office of Digital Learning…
Continue readingMIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa has been a long-time champion of online education and open sharing. Now we can add “flipped classroom advocate” to that list. This fall, Professor Miyagawa simultaneously taught…
Continue readingWe’ve blogged about MIT+K12 Videos before; today BostInno posted a great writeup about the program with insights from program coordinator Elizabeth Choe: In Choe’s eyes, MIT K+12 is a way…
Continue readingPrashanth Venkataram and Maria Cassidy are MIT seniors, and they want to tell you about invisibility cloaks. Remember this scene? Here‘s their explanation of it! The Physics of Invisibility Cloaks…
Continue readingMIT’s first MOOC, 6.002x Circuits & Electronics, had 154,000 people sign up. But how did these learners use the online course? Researchers analyzed the wealth of data these students generated…
Continue readingWelcome Wendy Cebula By Anant Agarwal In the two years since edX launched, we have partnered with the world’s leading universities and institutions to deliver free, high-quality courses to over…
Continue readingMIT Director of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma is quoted describing MOOCs as a “force multiplier” near the end of this Economist piece on MOOCs: Learned Luddites SOME people hope that…
Continue readingWe’re thrilled to welcome MIT Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) to the Office of Digital Learning umbrella. We’ve enjoyed a long and productive relationship between MIT OpenCourseWare and AMPS and…
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